travel

I'm getting ready to drive to kansas this morning.... wooo.. boring. But on Sunday I have to make the return trip by myself... so expect lots of random calls throughout the afternoon and evening while I attempt to keep myself awake.

And, you can probably hear funny stories of me doing something stupid... like racing.

-Later

Racing

I have a race this coming weekend. I'm not looking forward to it.

That is all.

-Later

Sunday

Stupid freaking rain...

it has been either threatening to rain, or raining all day... sort of sucks. I hate riding in the rain... it is very annoying.

I should suck it up and go to the gym or for a run...

but eh.. I'm tired.

-Later

Random things

So I've been working downtown for the last few days.. and I notice a lot of single speed bikes. But they all have freewheels. Now, I know coasting is nice and all.. but if you've got a single speed bike, why not go all out and get a fixed gear? You can still put brakes on it, but then you would be far more efficient and most likely faster.

I want to ride my fixed gear more often. I've got the Vigorelli all ready to start riding to work.. and if I leave a road bike at work.. that means I could still get in evening rides and take the fixie home. I know.. probably going to destroy my legs and/or knees.. but it'll be nice.

Mash has some good vids up on their site. Get to see Lance riding a fixed gear and getting his ass handed to him. Of course, after watching the Giro one is used to seeing Lance getting his ass handed to him.

If you haven't already.. go watch some stuff by Tim Minchin. Very funny stuffs.

-Later

Update

So, I've finally got my computer up and running in my apartment. My old laptop was getting progressively worse over the last few weeks so I finally got a new desktop. It is really nice, much more powerful than my laptop... and it can output directly to my TV. Which is very nice (in my opinion). The video card actually has an HDMI output on it.. so I don't have to deal with odd sizing issues or anything like that.

I've been trying to get back into the riding scene. I was off for a week.. then this last week was sort of wonky with weather, work, and bike issues. But this last weekend I rode saturday and sunday. Went extra hard on Saturday... is hurt a lot. And then Sunday the same Cat. 2 rider showed up and decided that a nice slow recovery ride wasn't going to happen. So we averaged 20+ for that ride... which is pretty quick considering the amount of turns and stop and go we had.

Anyways.. hopefully I'll stay healthy and get back into the swing of things.

-Later